Virtual Reality Mindfulness in Preoperative Anxious Patients

Ospedale Regionale di Mendrisio

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Preoperative Period; Test Anxiety; Anxiety State

Treatments: Other: application for mindfulness; Device: Virtual Reality

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05860192

APolito1

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this interventional study is to reduce preoperative anxiety by Virtual Reality mindfulness.

Population: all adults, able to give their consent and scheduled for surgery with high preoperative anxiety defined by Amsterdam Preoperative Anxiety and Information Scale (APAIS) score > 10. The study will recruit 100 patients in one university teaching hospital.

The main question it aims to answer is: may mindfulness by Virtual Reality reduce preoperative anxiety in patients particularly anxious for the surgery? Participants will be asked to undergo to a single mindfulness virtual reality session before the surgery.

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• adults able to give their consent, scheduled for elective surgery and with high preoperative anxiety defined by Amsterdam Preoperative Anxiety and Information Scale (APAIS) > 10

Exclusion criteria

• Pregnancy
• Epilepsy
• Pacemaker wearers
• Mental diseases
• Alcohol or drug addiction
• Severe hearing loss or blindness
• Simultaneous participation to other studies

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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100 participants in 1 patient group

Virtual Reality

Experimental group

Description:

Each patient undergoes to a virtual reality session of mindfullness. This lasts about 30 minutes.

Treatment:

Other: application for mindfulness

Device: Virtual Reality